The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-16
THE EVENING SUN GOT THERE
IT'S BASE BALL EXTRA OUT 10 MINUTES
AFTER THE GAME ENDED.

Every Contemporary Distaneod In Tiine,
Quality. and ounntity-whnt Enterprise
and Modern Appliances Can DO In . Race
to Get the News that Everybody Reads.
The Detroit Baae Ball Club was big In.
stitution about town yesterday afternoon. but
1t wasn't any bigger than The EvENINa
Suns Base Bull Extra. That extra was dam
dy, and the way It wallored It's esteemed even-
ing contemporaries was Just as interesting and
startling as was the manner In which the De-
troit boys wiped up tho Polo grounds green
sward with the youths from'St. Louis.
It was four minutes OF 5 o'clock when Thomp-
sons hardened palms closed overthe ball from
Caruther's bat as a newsboy's mouth closes
over q piece OF pic. That catch ended the
game and Just as the umpire up at the Polo
grounds exclaimed "Outl man in The
EVENING Sun Office knew all about 1t and said
"Bullyw
Two minutes later, Just as the crowd at tho
Polo grounds finished their frst round Of
cheers. the last OF the story OF what the cheer
ing was all about was clicking into the sticks
OF THE EVENING Suns printers. and In five
minutes more the whole story was being done
IN In red-hot liquid melted In The EVENING
Suns storeotyping rooms.
At thirteen minutes past the elevator boy
In THE Sun building was letting his car 70
down 30 fast that it drove the nails In his boot
h heels into his feet when he struck the bottom:
hf t @scbnosp bsrs Was Into
over from the loose to the tight puleys. a pre-
liminary whir, and then noise like the roar Of
q h ~ presently settling into dull.
Ing steel and brass snrang into life and settled
into moyyement that was as steady as still
At fifteen minutes past s, while the crowd at
the Polo Grounds was still altering out through
EVENING Suns base bali extra wore thrust out
from the eager steel fngers Of the presses;
minutes past five the fret
newsboys filled the delivery room and Frank
fort street outside Of it hoSwpg for more
ing the pavement aroused By the 'y roam Of Pt Tie
papers as the red carts could hold As each
one started with its load mob OF boys. unable
s the Ss
tailboard, evory one with his hands full Of pen.
MES .H and his mouth full Of howl for papers, :,
ers" over which such news is supposed to be-
nv rssSar Sus boys were
stu packed rex f.oh Ike sardinss into the delivery
the wys ranss tsa
won oas H22E oheefs
shriekins like demons. and these were some q
Hey, Gully. dis beats te.ayter tickets.
Get out O. de way, you's dere, and give Us
:" Dis is de cheese for u.s."
"What'ii / do wild desc 7" asked one. pointing
to pile Of other papers under his arm.
de use earn Doy sSSd h liz
companion.
III ss p Tes1 S H.s s
81 out ~ I've columns 81 sns
the tie TG %s 81 to
been ali night and half the next DAY inv IN Which, 3
to 81 Il It iva the and best
Tine sr had It. extra s out Pb9ut fifteen
lines
Last Of all came the World Al; half-past s
beneath the narrow window in Theatre alley.
ihs apother came. and then there we're
ING SUNS. Two buns in a dark corner a little
further down discussed the contents of u gar
come after waste paper. and two or three stray
carts were all that there was in the alley ex-
ceUt uiTl anu SmellS anu the SOunQ OF lar away
cries of :" Here's the extra Sun" as the
three little boys stood on tho platform In the
gathering dark and shivered. From the open
window the wind blew through their ragged
clothes, and 1t was very cold.
Darkness In the narrow alley had quit gath
erinE and settled down for good, and the buns
had finished their evening meal and gone to
sleep In their dark corner, when some body
came to the wind low and, after some search,
finding tho three boys DOING in the dark, called
to them and gave them each a bundle ofpapers.
Hey boy; have You got an extra ?" called
some one down toward Beck man street
One boy was so startled that he fell of the
they dashed of.
The alley was left alone to the darkness and
the buns.
Tho Ntra was out. and it WAS ten minutes Of
6. 1t had Just over column about the ball
of Interesting, leads" or blank lines, A man.
ferrous pencil 4 he had sat down with the first
buy and had fixed up an account Of the last
typed. and printed by tbe methods IN vogue In
would have had an extra ready Just about the
time the three little boys In Theatre alley
tumbled over one another in tho dark.
The principal other thing in the extra was a
sensational account Of the alleged destruction
by fire of three acres In the heart OF Cincinnati,
with the Flames still advancing" the little
foundation for which story appears in another